I analyse the problem of introducing the spin of the quark and the antiquark in effective QCD strings from the point of view of the Wilson loop for a spin-half particle, or the Super Wilson loop. A string representation of the Super Wilson loop is obtained starting from an effective string representation of a Wilson Loop. The action obtained in this manner is invariant under a worldline supersy...

YbMgGaO4, a structurally perfect two-dimensional triangular lattice with an odd number of electrons per unit cell and spin-orbit entangled effective spin-1/2 local moments for the Yb(3+) ions, is likely to experimentally realize the quantum spin liquid ground state. We report the first experimental characterization of single-crystal YbMgGaO4 samples. Because of the spin-orbit entanglement, the ...

In this article we review our work on the dynamics and decoherence of electron and hole spins in single and double quantum dots. The first part, on electron spins, focuses on decoherence induced via the hyperfine interaction while the second part covers decoherence and relaxation of heavy-hole spins due to spin-orbit interaction as well as the manipulation of heavy-hole spin using electric dipo...

Recently, the ordering of pyrochlore magnets consisting of corner-sharing network of tetrahedra has attracted much attention due to an intrinsic effect of geometrical frustration. Intensive studies were performed in particular on “spin-ice” magnets, e.g., Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7, which possesses a strong Ising-like < 111 > magnetic anisotropy and exhibits an intriguing glassy behavior analogous t...

Measurements of the longitudinal nuclear spin relaxation time, Ti, in molecular gases are analogous to non-resonant absorption measurements; Ti is determined primarily by that part of the spin-lattice interaction which couples free molecular states of the same energy. The contribution to Ti of matrix elements of the spin-lattice interaction between rotational states of different energy is quenc...